From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:26:16 -0700
Date: 2014-07-12T23:26:16-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lpt8qb$2ad$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lpsoun$5b0$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On 07/12/2014 06:55 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
> Just wondering on this choice and its advantage over the more
> common syntax.
For the same reason Ada has type conversions, not type casts. "Type conversion"
is clear; "type cast" must be explained if you haven't encountered it before.
Ada's notation is clear; conversions involve some processing and so are like
functions. C's unintuitive notation must be explained when 1st encountered.
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2014-07-13 1:55 why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-13 3:01 ` Shark8
2014-07-13 6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-07-13 14:33 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-13 9:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-13 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-13 10:20 ` AdaMagica
2014-07-13 10:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-14 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 18:42 ` G.B.
2014-07-15 19:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-15 22:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 19:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-15 23:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 22:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-13 14:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 15:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-14 16:24 ` G.B.
2014-07-14 17:41 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-14 19:41 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-14 20:51 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 23:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 19:22 ` Marius Amado-Alves
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